Site details

Koxare: Pale

PK	C7429
TITLE	Koxare: Pale
WGS84	35.238242° N, 24.46928° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.238242, 24.46928
LON/LAT	24.46928, 35.238242

DMS

35° 14' 17.6712" N

24° 28' 9.408" E

W3W	streetwise, think, hooky
UTM	35 S, 269713.72, 3902399.24
EGSA87	542550, 3899276

Elevation m	297
Elevation feet	974.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Hagios Vasileios

GENERAL SITE TYPE Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Hood and Warren [1966], 177    'Isolated Minoan building on the lower shoulder of a ridge ... '
2.    Sherds.   Hood and Warren [1966], 177    ' ..., together with Minoan sherds, mostly fragments of pithoi, but including tripod feet.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 178, ' ..., while the naturalistic rope ornament on two others ... looks M.M. rather than L.M.'

2. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 178, ' ... give the impression of belonging to the horizon of M.M. II/III - L.M. I, but may in fact be later ... '

3. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 178, ' ... give the impression of belonging to the horizon of M.M. II/III - L.M. I, but may in fact be later ... '

4. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 178, ' ... give the impression of belonging to the horizon of M.M. II/III - L.M. I, but may in fact be later ... '

5. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 177, 'The pottery in general is L.M. III in character, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Warren [1966]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '14. Koxare: 'Pale' (Παλέ)', pg. 177. Online here.